‘Corridor’ under ifilm spotlight - part 2

‘The Corridor’, recently aired on ifilm, is a movie much reviewed by Iranian critics; we thought you deserve a share, in the following few installments.

Critic 1: Ali Farsi

To balance the bitterness of the main topic, the film bids to embrace a child’s sweetness and the oxymoron propels the screenplay’s engine forward.

Making use of mystery in putting the subtopics forward, and the responses proposed, the flick sticks with a phased approach to the narrative. The wooden statue, expulsion from school, the peers, and the stone throwing are all timed bombs that go off at the time devised to.

Spelling out a father and his son’s relationship is one overlooked in both domestic and world cinema; a bond so intricate and eye-catching. The step-by-step manner in which the two reach a proximate vicinity, blended with the possibility of the dad’s death, after which the movie depicts the main topic of retaliatory capital punishment, is the technique used to give the audience a sense of contact to the films main focus.

One of the flick’s weaknesses is rooted in the same notion, though. On the one hand, a child’s perspective is adopted, and the intonation is primarily that of a kid, and on the other, an adult issue is raised. As a result, it sometimes wanders among such extremes, and incorporates a tinge of ambiguity.

Nonetheless, the fancy side of the narrative, in which childish mischief and quarrel, as well as a confrontation in the football pitch – when used as dressing for the realistic unfolding of the punishment – fashions  interesting accounts of linguistic, narrative and expression differences. The mixture is, however, controlled by employing quality edit and music tools.

To be continued.

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